Are You My Mummy?

After spending the morning at the Karnak Temple, we had free time for the rest of the day. This gave us a chance to visit some places within walking distance of our hotel. First, a couple of museums: Luxor Museum and Mummification Museum. These are not the same caliber as the Cairo Museum, but they do contain a variety of interesting objects. The Luxor Museum has a variety of artifacts from throughout ancient Egypt, much as we had already seen. Unlike the Cairo Museum, it was laid out much better with better signage. (It’ll be nice when the Grand Egyptian […]

Writing on the Wall

– How would you say that in ancient Egyptian?– “Foot, snake, squiggle, squiggle, bird.”– Works for me.– Gee, hieroglyphics are easy! Sam and Max: Season 3: The Tomb of Sammun-mak After driving for a few hours down the Nile, making our way back north and stopping at the Greek temples at Kom Ombo and Edfu, we came to the modern city of Luxor, ancient Thebes – the southern capital of ancient Egypt. Modern Cairo is near the ancient northern capital of Memphis. The area around Luxor has more to see of ancient Egypt than Cairo, in my opinion. While Cairo […]